Ok folks.

When someone sends a message to the listserve they usually give it a subject
(like Rant). When someone else replies to the first person's message it's
subject becomes Re: Rant. This system makes it easy to follow the discussion
about the first question.

If someone does this (and it was done recently-by two different people-with
a message I sent to the listserve) and the originator of a message is trying
to follow the thread about her/his question then all of a sudden there's an
entirely different conversation going on and the original questioner is left
wondering what's going on.

It is confusing, not to mention rude, to use someone else's question to post
your own question on an entirely different subject.

Just in case you don't know the address of this listserve it is:

macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu


Harry,


Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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What a strange, long, trip it is!

remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast
you go coming down!


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